“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” 6th class style

by Alexandra, Maeve, Luke & Cade December 2020 This year, because of Coronavirus, we couldn’t do our usual big Christmas production so we decided to make a video within our bubble (class). We used a Green-Screen, a Boom box and a microphone to record our version of the 1984 song "Do They Know Its Christmas?" We auditioned for the video on See-Saw. Everyone in our class was given either a singing or non-singing role. Everyone also brought in 80’s style clothes for filming. It took...
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GRMA!

by Matthew, Emma, Cathal, Olivia, Hugh & Ethan  December 2020 As part of a national campaign, the Air Force asked us to form the letters GRMA to say Go Raibh Maith Agat to all the teachers and staff around the country for keeping us safe. We went outside on the 1st of December to practise forming the letters. Sixth class were making the letter G.  The next day the air force came to film us. Everybody went to the field and made the letters. Next, we all saw a helicopter fly...
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Treasure Island

by Ryan, Aarron, Gavin & Harley December 2020 Over the last six weeks, we have been reading "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson.  This book is about Jim Hawkins, who is a cabin boy among a group of pirates and friends. They are sailing to an island where they want to find the treasure of Captain Flint! The novel has 34 chapters that are split into 6 parts and we read one part every week. At the end of the week, we would do a revision quiz on Kahoot. After the quiz en...
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#GRMA!!

This was a very exciting week at St. Anne's with a visit from the Irish Air Corps to present a #GRMA to our school. The event was part of a nationwide initiative which will culminate in a #GRMA day on Friday 11th December. Footage of the visit was uploaded on RTE's twitter page today (Friday 4th December) which you can see below. Well done and thank you to everyone involved, you were fantastic! https://twitter.com/rte/status/1334870914417221632?s=20  
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Painting like Michelangelo 2020

by Ailbhe, Katie, Max & Keelan November 2020 One Friday afternoon, we were all given an A3 sheet of paper and bluetack. We had to stick the page to the bottom of our desks. The idea was to see what it would have been like for Michelangelo when he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel while lying on his back looking up at the ceiling. We had been studying the Renaissance in history and this lesson linked to that.   We all got paint and started painting under our desk. It ...
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Dance Class

by Chris, Lucas, Dylan, Amy, Nathan & Layla November 2020 We started a dance class on Wednesdays in November for five weeks.  For the first few weeks, we learned to dance to the song "Level Up" by Ciara. It was really fun but was very tiring! The second dance we did was "Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer. We did that for two weeks and it was extremely hard but great fun.  After ever session we played a game where there was a person on and they had to turn against ...
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Halloween 2020

by Lyle, Jack, Aoibhín, Jake, Kate & Aurimas November 2020   We had a strange Halloween because of Covid but we enjoyed it anyway. We did a costume competition in the school and each class had a winner for creative, scary and funny!        We did an art competition in the school also. There were five winners from each class. There were prizes for the winners. Most people entered and a gallery was set up in the hall which we all visit...
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Classwork 30th March to 3rd April (updated with answers)

***Answers for Irish, Maths and English work below. Hi everybody, I hope you are all managing well in the current difficult circumstances. We are now getting used to our new situations and I know you are all doing your best to maintain social distancing and keep your hands washed. It is very important to keep this up in the next few weeks and months. Below I have included work for the next week. I have again structured it so that there is core work in English, Gaeilge & maths to be ...
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Classwork Wednesday 18th to Friday 27th March *updated 27th March*

As this period is ending and another set of work is going up on a separate page, I will fill in the answers for various exercises here and hopefully this will help you to greater understand any problems you may have had. Again please remember any questions you may have. Write them down somewhere and once See Saw is up and running, you will be able to send them to me.   Core work for Wednesday 18th to Friday 20th March. Answers in red Gaeilge: Abair Liom       ...
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Activities and Competitions (February & March 2020)

by Sixth Class March 2020 February and March were very busy months for the Sixth Class children. Over the course of a few short weeks, children from sixth class represented the school at the Credit Union Table Quiz in Naas, a Soccer Blitz in Leixlip, a Basketball Blitz in Newbridge and a Spelling Bee in Kildare. We performed very well in each of these competitions, particularly the soccer blitz where we lost the final in a penalty shootout. The basketball blitz for the girls was meant to b...
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